• ripcord@lemmy.world
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            No, no, the correct meaning of “boomer” apparently is “anyone older than me that I don’t like”

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              I recently heard some teenager call someone that was Gen Y a “boomer”. IRL.

              Yeah, I actually laughed out loud at that. 🤣

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              Attempting to explain anything meaningful by referencing generational cohorts is a lazy, useless pastime anyway. It has about as much intellectual rigor and explanatory power as astrology or the theory of humours.

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      This is a huge about-face by her. Why couldn’t she have done this when she was still in power?

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      Retire? Oh you’re funny.

      She is 100% planning on dying in office. She’s obviously one those people who are obsessed with leaving a “legacy”. In her mind she’s going to be remember as the first female member of the House and a groundbreaking feminist who made way for others, etc.

      Which would have probably stuck if she’d retired a decade ago. Now she’s going to remembered as a greedy ghoul who intentionally sabotaged other politicians and held back society to enrich herself. This is too little, too late.

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        Yea, I have nothing but disdain for Dianne Feinstein who did great things like 300 years ago and then held on to her position so long that it all got ruined and thrown away.

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        a groundbreaking feminist who made way for others

        Ah, right, he “woman CEO” 1970s bourgeois feminist trope. But experience has now demonstrated that here’s no difference between a male and a female corrupt weasel. Capitalists are still capitalists, and their weasel mouthpieces are still weasels.

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      Yeah I was gonna say, she’s 85 and has insider traded her way to a net worth of ~$250 million. No wonder she’s like yeah fuck it lol.

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      Normally I’d agree, but she’s one of the old boomers. She’s planning to stay in power another 15 years.

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        Well, kids these days only care about TikCrafts and their MineToks, so it’s our fault she has to stay in power. If we cared more about governance by the people, for the people, instead of streaming Fartnight, she could learn what skibidi toilet Ohio means from her great-grandkids and know why Democrats lose there.